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Coyotes in the Neighborhood?
N/A ^ | December 12, 2010 | Doc91678

Posted on 12/31/2010 11:49:33 AM PST by Doc91678

Has anyone heard of coyote attacks on pet dogs in the area of Broome and Tioga Counties, New York State? Seems coyote activity has increased in this area. Anyone having the same problems?


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To: Doc91678

I read about them a number of years ago in that area. Local paper at the time was featuring dogs and cats attacked right outside owners houses.


21 posted on 12/31/2010 12:33:52 PM PST by headstamp 2 ("My Boss is a Jewish Carpenter")
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To: Doc91678

Saw one on the Ohio Turnpike West of Cleveland Dec 21. about 3:00PM.

He (it?) crossed the eastbound lane to the center, then turned and went back to the wooded area on the right.


22 posted on 12/31/2010 12:37:23 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim
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To: Doc91678

Coyotes are snacking on small pets all over the country. My neighbor lost a small dog this year when she let her dogs out in the backyard one morning. She managed to save the other one.


23 posted on 12/31/2010 12:40:04 PM PST by austingirl
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Coyotes all over metropolitan Atlanta suburbs. Many cats and small dogs disappear. Concerning to see them boldly wandering around in the daytime since they generally are nocturnal in these densely populated areas, it can mean they are disoriented and possibly rabid.


24 posted on 12/31/2010 12:44:58 PM PST by cycle of discernment
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To: Doc91678

We live down south and have packs and packs of coyotes that wander the river bank down below our house. Our dogs talk to them, and what they say to them makes them tend to travel on down the river. They seem to be peaceful with each other actually. It’s neat to hear our dogs yowling at the moon in a different language, and the coyotes answering back.


25 posted on 12/31/2010 12:48:15 PM PST by Twinkie (Awake and strengthen that which remains . . . . . . . . Revelation 3)
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To: Cisco Nix

“Yes, it’s a dog eat dog world...”

and I’m wearing Milkbone underwear.
-Norm (from the TV show “Cheers”)


26 posted on 12/31/2010 12:51:40 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: Doc91678

We had problems last winter when a pair extended their range into town. Had to keep the cats indoors. If it had gone on much longer, I’d have bought a crossbow with a laser site, and will if they come back. (”City” ordinances forbid discharging firearms and a host of other projectile weapons, slingshots, bb and pellet guns included, but not, on plain reading of the ordinance, crossbows or bows.)


27 posted on 12/31/2010 12:52:57 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Doc91678

Name your favorite firearm for taking down coyotes!


28 posted on 12/31/2010 12:52:57 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
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To: cayuga; The_Reader_David

The arguments for bows vs crossbows are twofold. A real bow has a lot more power for a given draw weight since energy is measured in foot-pounds; the crossbow has the pounds but not the feet. Second is that second and third shots are much faster and easier to get off with the real bow. In fact most bowhunting is front tree stands and there’s no real way to cock a crossbow in most treestands.


29 posted on 12/31/2010 1:13:01 PM PST by wendy1946
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To: Doc91678

“Anyone having the same problems?”

...not since the wolves ran them off....


30 posted on 12/31/2010 1:14:12 PM PST by castlebrew (Gun control means hitting where you're aiming!)
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To: Doc91678
Center of PA, plenty of them around here. There's an annual Coyote roundup, with prizes, so the hunters who participate help keep them in check.

A friend of my Dad's (both of them now deceased) said repeatedly since the 70’s that he saw the PA Game Commission drive into his Dad's field, open cages in the back of their truck, and release coyote's (within 10 miles from where I live now). I know people who were killing them in the late 70’s when the Game Commission was still denying there were any in PA. Once the coyote population went crazy, the Game Commission must’ve reconsidered as now they are one of the few creatures that can be hunted any time year-round.

31 posted on 12/31/2010 1:19:19 PM PST by Kay Ludlow (Government actions ALWAYS have unintended consequences...)
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You know when the coyotes are active when the "Missing cat" flyers are on every pole around the neighborhood. LMAO---I hate cats.

For such a spooky animal I've actually seen a pack of 2 or 3 coyotes harass a Great Dane and Bullmastif. Twilight-- howling and stalking around the dogs behind brush cover. The dogs were behind a fence, but still.....


32 posted on 12/31/2010 1:21:54 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (I'm armed and Amish.)
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To: Doc91678

Met a kid last week out in the country that had several pieces of raw chicken hanging hanging from a tree about 5’ off the ground.

He’d seen a coyote at dusk the prior evening and was sitting in the back of his truck with a rifle waiting for it to return.


33 posted on 12/31/2010 1:23:17 PM PST by Rebelbase ( Islam is a mental disorder.)
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To: proudofthesouth
We are babysitting a big black lab for a family member who is in a rental house due to a temporary military assignment. No pets allowed there. He wanders, so we have him staked out in the back yard of our rural house, (while letting him off his chain to run around while we are outside, being really careful now that it's hunting season.)

About 6 weeks ago, my husband called me as he was going down the stairs - he saw a coyote out circling the lab. Our neighbor has just bought a pair of donkeys to keep them out of his pastures, and I think we may do the same.

34 posted on 12/31/2010 1:26:13 PM PST by Tuscaloosa Goldfinch ( T.G., global warming denier.)
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To: Twinkie
"Our dogs talk to them, and what they say to them makes them tend to travel on down the river. They seem to be peaceful with each other actually. It’s neat to hear our dogs yowling at the moon in a different language, and the coyotes answering back."

It is a strange interaction.....I've seen it quite a few times. It's almost as if the coyotes are saying "We could use a few more swinging tails in the field.....come join us"
35 posted on 12/31/2010 1:32:13 PM PST by Electric Graffiti (I'm armed and Amish.)
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To: Huebolt

You have got to be kidding right? Coyotes have been around since forever all over the state of Michigan and Canada. The problem is with Coyotes is that they can and will survive real well in the city areas.

Dont want coyotes? Then import a few wolves like we got up here in the UP. We’d be more than happy to let you have a couple thousand of them if you want.


36 posted on 12/31/2010 2:15:36 PM PST by crz
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To: Twinkie

They aint talking they are trying to call out your dogs to kill them and eat them.


37 posted on 12/31/2010 2:17:33 PM PST by crz
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To: Jack Hydrazine

:-)


38 posted on 12/31/2010 2:19:04 PM PST by Cisco Nix (Real Conservatives stay sober and focused)
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To: Rebelbase

Injured rabbit call. Works every time.


39 posted on 12/31/2010 2:19:08 PM PST by crz
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To: Doc91678

Lotta people see coyotes and think they are dogs. Coyotes never run with their tails up in the air-always with the tail down. That and they have that Fox type of look to their face, at least to me.

Wolves will run with their tails straight out or up if they are at a lope. Plus wolves are big, real big. Had one out and out wolf attack on a forester this past fall up here. Matter of time before a pack gets a kid waiting for the school bus. Of course the fish and game will say it was a stray dog. How do you fight off a wolf attack without a gun? Especially if there are three or four and they are at the 100 plus pound range each?


40 posted on 12/31/2010 2:26:26 PM PST by crz
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